Kevin's blog

"Some people dream of great accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them." - Anon.

We're back in nights & weekends mode again here @ the ACS, and you're welcome to join us!

But note that we're asking more of you - and asking more of you - to help. Please bang around the ACS site a bit and you'll learn more of what we're doing. THIS year, we're hoping to engage - and network - the whole state of Colorado together for this event.

And noting that LAST year's ACS sold out, you'll want to register early and often. ;-)

36 companies & 4 non profits are now set to present on Tues. @ the now sold out ACS. Figure there will be around 400 people there off and on during the day. Based on the number of companies presenting, this is the largest event of this nature ever in Colorado - maybe in the whole of the U.S. And we've high confidence that these are some of the best companies in CO.

How did we manage this much info this fast & well? Let me break it out for you...

(Disclosure: The Boulder County Business Report - the partial subject of my blog post below - is a media sponsor for the ACS.)

Here's a recent article titled 'Touched By An Angel' in the BCBR.com about angel investing & the Angel Capital Summit. I encourage you to read it. There are some good observations in it about both the process and the landscape.

In 1965 the Minnesota Twins lost the 7th game of the World Series to the Los Angeles Dodgers 2-0 at home.

I was 9 years old. It sucked.

In 1982 the Minnesota Twins lost 102 games. The nucleus from this team - players like Frank Viola, Kent Hrbek, Tom Brunansky & Gary Gaetti - went on to win the
1987 World Series - with, of course, the now immortal Kirby Puckett.

Today we closed up the selection process for the presenting companies. Though there are a couple of loose ends to tie up, we know who's going to present and who's not. We are exited! There are some great companies in this mix!!

Yesterday we turned on the Investor Profiling ap. One of the first investors to profile himself was 'Angelo Investore'. Angelo's a friend of mine, but I don't think that's his real name. Leastways, that's not generally what I call him. But if that's what he wants to be called in this online community of investors we're building, so be it. Who am I to argue? Generally, I'm OK with whatever people call me but 'late for dinner'.

Deal screening for an event of this nature is always problematic. For VC's, it's relatively straight forward. They've a profile they're looking for and companies outside the profile generally aren't contacted. They hire smart, experienced and educated people that are subject matter experts within the profile area they want to work within.

Angel Capital Summit

In the early days of the Internet it was routine to see people 'paving over the cow paths', i.e., using new technologies to speed up old business processes. From this they got incremental new efficiencies. Those businesses that designed new business processes around the capabilities of the new technologies generally got order of magnitude improvements in efficiencies.

Enter the Angel Capital Summit...

OK. I'm sorry about the dog/Malta post. It won't happen again. I'll try to tone down the 'Metaphors 'R Us' thing and stick to the basics and more current topics.

Go ROCKIES!! Get Nacchio!

Cheers,
Kevin

PS - In case you were wondering, the name of the last dog in Malta was Persephone. She was a greyhound.

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In 1565 the Ottoman Sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, laid siege to the island of Malta. During the 4 months of the siege what was done then by the Knights of St. John was what needed to be done.